The Punic Mediterranean : identities and identification from Phoenician settlement to Roman rule by Josephine Crawley Quinn(
Book
)12
editions published
between
2014
and
2018
in
English
and held by
275 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the
Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'Classical' world, but their lack of literature and their Oriental
associations mean that they are much less well-known. This book brings the state of the art in international scholarship on
Phoenician and Punic studies to an English-speaking audience, collecting new papers from fifteen leading voices in the field
from Europe and North Africa, with a bias towards the younger generation. Focusing on a series of case-studies from the colonial
world of the western Mediterranean, it is the first volume in any language to address the questions of what 'Phoenician' and
'Punic' actually mean, how 'Punic' or western Phoenician identity has been constructed by ancients and moderns, the coherency
of Punic culture, and whether there was in fact a 'Punic world'

The late prehistory of Malta : essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites(
Book
)7
editions published
in
2015
in
English
and held by
53 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Borġ in-Nadur, on the south-east coast of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span several
thousand years. In the course of the Late Neolithic, the steep-sided ridge was occupied by a large megalithic temple complex
that was re-occupied in the succeeding Bronze Age. In the course of the second millennium BC, it was heavily fortified by
a massive wall to protect a settlement of huts. Excavations were carried out here in 1881 and again in 1959. This volume brings
together a number of contributions that report on those excavations, providing an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy,
the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones and the molluscs

"What mean these stones?" (Joshua 4:6, 21) : essays on texts, philology, and archaeology in honour of Anthony J. Frendo(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
50 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This volume is dedicated to Anthony J. Frendo, professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Hebrew Bible at the University of
Malta. Frendo has dedicated the largest part of his academic career to exploring the relationship between text and artefact.
Appropriately, therefore, many of the collected essays operate at this interface between disciplines while focusing on a diverse
array of material, such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Punic epigraphy, Phoenician/Punic textual and material culture, ancient Near
Eastern archaeology, biblical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as elements from Maltese archaeology, including a cuneiform
inscription found at a local sanctuary at Tas-Silg

Tas-Silg, Marsaxlokk (Malta) II. Archaeological excavations conducted by the University of Malta, 1996-2005(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2015
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
Tas-Silg, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains spanning
four thousand years. A megalithic temple complex built in the early third millennium BC gave way to a Phoenician and Punic
sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Astarte. The sacred place underwent major transformations in Roman times, becoming an international
religious complex dedicated to the goddess Juno. Located on the maritime routes plied by mariners and traders, its fame did
not escape the attention of the first-century BC orator Cicero. Excavated as part of a major archaeological project in the
1960s, the site of Tas-Silg lay abandoned for several decades. In 1996, the University of Malta renewed excavations at the
site for ten seasons, uncovering Neolithic and Late Bronze Age occupation levels, and substantial deposits associated with
ritual offerings of Punic date. This volume is the second monograph of the final publication of the excavations. It provides
an account of the pottery and of the hundreds of inscribed pottery sherds that were recovered during the excavations.0It forms
a companion volume to the first monograph, which reports on the history of the site and other finds

Tas-Silg, Marsaxlokk (Malta) I. Archaeological excavations conducted by the University of Malta, 1996-2005(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2014
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
Tas-Silg, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains spanning
four thousand years. A megalithic temple complex built in the early third millennium BC gave way to a Phoenician and Punic
sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Astarte. The sacred place underwent major transformations in Roman times, becoming an international
religious complex dedicated to the goddess Juno. Located on the maritime routes plied by mariners and traders, its fame did
not escape the attention of the first-century BC orator Cicero. Excavated as part of a major archaeological project in the
1960s, the site of Tas-Silg lay abandoned for several decades. In 1996, the University of Malta renewed excavations at the
site for ten seasons, uncovering Neolithic and Late Bronze Age occupation levels, and substantial deposits associated with
ritual offerings of Punic date. This volume is the first monograph of the final publication of the excavations.0It provides
an account of those excavations and of the studies which accompanied them, including the lithic assemblages, the figurative
representations, scarabs and amulets, the worked stone, the coins, and environmental analyses. It forms a companion volume
to the second monograph, which reports on the pottery and the inscribed pottery